Getting ready to run 6 miles up the side of Manhattan (and then 6 miles down) when we saw a bunch of lovely women in festive summer party hats. And then we saw more party hats. And then we saw more. Seriously, hundreds of women in party hats!

“Maybe they’re all going to a wedding?” Petra wondered.

A few miles into our run, we saw a billboard for the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governor’s Island and realized that was probably where all those lovely hatted ladies were headed. (We had been right by the Governor’s Island Ferry.) A polo match just BEGS for a party hat, right?

Here’s Delfina Blaquier and her boyfriend Nacho Figueras, a famous polo player guy, at the event.

And here’s a random guest at the event with a Nacho cutout.

But wouldn’t both of these women’s hats looked equally lovely at a summertime garden wedding?

I been to a black tie wedding, a beach casual wedding, and almost everything in between. But I’ve never been to a garden wedding where the guests were urged to wear sun hats. How much fun would that be?!

Would you throw a garden wedding with sun hats? And will you invite me if you do? Who else has been jonesing to wear a big, festive hat? (Damn you, royal wedding.)